Markets
Sentiment in two charts pic.twitter.com/hotr0tl5P2
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 25, 2022
🇺🇸 #Buyback Blackout Period Is Over: We Are About To Get $11BN In VWAP Buying Every Day – Zerohedgehttps://t.co/5djNBKEShx
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 26, 2022
Economic Indicators and Prospects
🇺🇸 Chicago Fed’s Activity Index Remains Negative for Second Month – Bloomberg
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 26, 2022
*Link: https://t.co/hq8LazfZiZ pic.twitter.com/IXtZYqgtVJ
🇺🇸 July Dallas Fed #Manufacturing Falls to -22.6 (weakest since May 2020), below est. and vs -17.7 prior
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 25, 2022
*New orders at -9.2 (weakest since May 2020) vs -7.3 prior pic.twitter.com/otX9CMkFC2
🇺🇸 Walmart cuts profit outlook as inflation forces shoppers to spend more on necessities – CNBChttps://t.co/ADLWIMz2gq
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 26, 2022
this chart helps to explain Walmart's warning $WMT https://t.co/boK0lS0TK3 pic.twitter.com/nISl28jXu6
— Sam Ro 📈 (@SamRo) July 25, 2022
🇺🇸 The ⬇ in #gasoline prices is gaining momentum, with the national average posting its biggest weekly drop in almost 14 years. Pump prices ⬇ ~17 cents for the week ended Sunday, which also included a one-day drop of 3.1 cents (the largest daily ⬇ since Dec. 2008) – Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/eULrbYppMG
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 25, 2022
🇺🇸 (2) | The problem is that employment data are mainly lagging or coincident indicators. In addition, data confirm the U.S. employment situation has already deteriorated over the past weeks and will weaken further in the coming months.https://t.co/B5EW2Yp6F0
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 25, 2022
Housing
Price reductions are still climbing quickly.
— Mike Simonsen 🐉 (@mikesimonsen) July 25, 2022
34.8% of the market has taken a price cut.
It'll be October before price cuts level off. Over 40% at that time.
Sellers beware this only gets harder as the year goes on.
4/6 pic.twitter.com/jXnJ1K5jKD
Monetary Policy
🇺🇸 Forget About 100-Basis-Point #Fed Hike, Investors Say – Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/a0iNT00d8L
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 25, 2022
Trade, Supply Chain and Geopolitics
🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇹🇼 U.S. Officials Grow More Concerned About Potential Action by #China on #Taiwan – NYThttps://t.co/KRVWP6Cbwm
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 26, 2022
🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Biden still expects to speak with #China's Xi this week – Reutershttps://t.co/XNSricCGHb
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 26, 2022
Covid-19
Economic Indicators and Prospects
🇭🇰 #HongKong’s finance chief warns annual economic growth forecast could be cut, admits ‘most critical constraint’ has been border closure and pledges government is doing its all to ease rules – SCMPhttps://t.co/6QYYUhKZRe
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 26, 2022
🇯🇵 #Japan slashes fiscal year GDP growth forecast to 2.0% on global demand slump – Reutershttps://t.co/MwH1IyOzfv
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 26, 2022
Japan’s prices are showing more signs of rising on a wider basis as soaring commodity prices and a weak yen force companies to pass higher costs onto consumers at a pace not seen in decades https://t.co/16A2XT5LLF
— Bloomberg (@business) July 26, 2022
Housing
A match-making meeting organized by the #China Real Estate Association is held in Hangzhou today. Institutions including Cinda, CICC, and CZB attended.
— CN Wire (@Sino_Market) July 26, 2022
Representatives from troubled developers will communicate with institutions and M&A-oriented corporations.-Cailian https://t.co/JdEagz4UTW
Monetary Policy
Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting on June 16 and 17, 2022 https://t.co/vR37vGFhv3
— Bank of Japan (@Bank_of_Japan_e) July 25, 2022
🇯🇵 The gap between #Japan’s longest-dated yields and benchmark 10-year equivalents surged to the widest since 2015 as the central bank’s determination to stick with dovish policy puts strain on the world’s second-biggest sovereign bond market – Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/da96AKjNce
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 26, 2022
Trade, Supply Chain and Geopolitics
The possibility of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan is stoking China-US tensions just days ahead of a phone call between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping. @EngleTV reports on @BloombergTV https://t.co/y2IHSYWm1I pic.twitter.com/HjXRPRskEF
— Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) July 26, 2022
Economic Indicators and Prospects
UK Voter Concern About Inflation Touches Highest In 40 Years – BBG https://t.co/tBns4Tw9o9
— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) July 26, 2022
Spanish PPI (M/M) Jun: 1.9% (prev 0.9%; prevR 1.0%)
— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) July 26, 2022
– Spanish PPI (Y/Y) Jun: 43.2% (prev 43.6%)
Fiscal Policy
🇮🇹 #Italy’s access to share of €800bn EU Covid funds in play after Mario Draghi’s exit – FThttps://t.co/1PBUmwWYxF
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 26, 2022
Energy
🇪🇺 EU Faces Solidarity Test Over Forced Cuts in Russian #Gas Fight – Bloomberg
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 26, 2022
*Link: https://t.co/9KqbnfL2Ar pic.twitter.com/JVV5JfRuJq
🇪🇺 *EUROPEAN #GAS FUTURES REACH 190.49 EU/MWH, HIGHEST SINCE MARCH 9 – BBG
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 26, 2022
Greece lays out proposals to reduce the influence of surging natural gas costs on electricity prices https://t.co/ruLNRWpGVG
— Bloomberg (@business) July 26, 2022
Politics
Truss’s tax cut plan is ‘risky’ for the UK, former BOE rate setter DeAnne Julius says https://t.co/jmD4DkBsYF via @rvlandberg pic.twitter.com/LQQO7bBVQo
— Zoe Schneeweiss (@ZSchneeweiss) July 26, 2022
Trade, Supply Chain and Geopolitics
🇷🇺 The Steady Erosion of Russian #Oil Exports Continues – Bloomberg
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 26, 2022
*Link: https://t.co/8ME4e9oHi8 pic.twitter.com/4UtBePyOja
Follow the latest updates from Russia's invasion of Ukraine https://t.co/Vd9jNAPiLe
— Bloomberg Economics (@economics) July 26, 2022
⚠ #WeekAhead: Week 30 (2022) ⚠
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 25, 2022
🇺🇸 #FOMC Meeting
🇺🇸 🇪🇺 U.S. and Eurozone GDP
🇪🇺 #Eurozone CPI
🇪🇺 EU Emergency Meeting on #Energy
…https://t.co/BK5y2KcsJ1
🌎 #IMF will release its Economic Outlook Update today.
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) July 26, 2022
*Link: https://t.co/7Odb1Pkge9
➡ GDP forecasts will be revised downward especially for 2022
➡ The consensus still looks optimistic pic.twitter.com/3yQzUmoKxM